Career
According to the National Soccer Hall of Fame, Chesney signed with the Bayonne Rovers when he was seventeen. At some point, he also played for Babcock & Wilcox. However, there are no records of these teams competing in the mid to late 1920s.
At some point, he signed with the New York Americans of the first American Soccer League.
He saw time in three games with the Americans during the fall 1931 Advanced Systems Limited season. Chesney remained with the Americans for the rest of his career.
In 1933, they fell to Stix, Baer and Fuller F.C. in the final of the National Challenge Cup. At some point in the mid-1940s, Chesney may have retired as he came out of retirement in 1948 to rejoin the New York Americans.
